The “Knowledge Associates”

When the whole world is against you, you can be certain of one thing, that you are “something”. (Ha-ha).

No, really I did not mean it to be a one-liner. It actually is so.

I never expected to be in the middle of great controversies. It happened that way, and I am familiar with it from the day I became conscious of the world around me. It was a foolish world, it was nothing important; it was so totally farcical that one would have to burst one’s gut in laughing at it. Well I could not laugh, because the world has a way of making you its own, it is a sort of take over, when that happens you stop laughing and you start being foolish. This would not be liked by many. They are so terribly serious about everything that they do in their lives. Have you ever watched people going about their business in life, have you ever looked at their faces, have you ever listened to what they are saying?

And?

You can’t laugh still? Well I do not pity you, I can’t laugh too, but there are rare moments when one sees what this fucking thing called life is all about. It is about acting roles with which you can make yourself seriously foolish.

You do not agree? Catch a spare moment and review you own deeds in life, let you be an Einstein ( he is copy right, I know of the sublimely intelligent, yet in this world of names and forms one has to pick on something is it not? ) or any one important, think of the times when you were at your serious best. I promise you, you won’t be able to resist it; you would laugh and laugh till tears pour out of your eyes. Even the cruelest of deeds would look funny and terribly hilarious to you.

Well if you are not able to do that and if you still go about like a piece of concrete which can’t crumble, I should feel really sorry for you.

There is this story in the great Epic Mahabharata (It might not be a great epic to some I know, ancient gibberish of a backward people.

We are the elite are we not? The unquestionably modern, the “knowledge associates”?)

“Yudhishtira” the eldest of Pandavas (His name means “of firm intellect”) had to save his brothers from a demon by answering a number of questions.

One question was:

“What is the most hilarious thing in the world?”

He had no doubts in his mind. He replied:

“People going about their lives smugly while others are dying all around”

The demon released his brothers in that instant. (I was that demon if you want)

[Ancient lore, there is no MC ‘esquared’ in it. There are no “divine permutations” in it. There is no Pythagoras in it. Huh, how revolting, what was this guy Vyasa thinking about? Did he think that he can teach us something, the ultra modern, the invincibly and incoherently intelligent?

The cheek that these ancients had! Well any way buddy, who was this “ysa?”He was not a Stephan Hawking is he; he is not even a Harvard or Princeton graduate.

Is he even a Ramanuja or a Subramaniam Chandra Sekhar? They were not good, mind you, but we have to be charitable to the few sufferable specimens from the Third World.

There are pretences to be kept. We run the world, but we have to be diplomatic about it.

Anyway we have instructed a few of our vassals at that place to keep things in order.

God, these guys have even dared to send probes to the moon, the audacity of it all. Why could not they sit at home and light crackers instead?]

Well as you see there are a few of their vassals around at this land. Some of them are in the business of communication. Certain of these cronies have been very instructive of late. They want me to “look around”. Not bad, not bad at all considering that I am forced into playing a deadly game at present.

Would they consider giving the same advice to others in the land? What about picking on Abhinav Bindra”? The Gold medal winner for shooting in the Olympics? Did you not advice him to look around while he was shooting? Sight-seeing is great when you are trying to concentrate like hell is it not? Probably you have given such advises to all others already. No wonder they look at the spectators and get mutilated.

Couldn’t you get our space scientists to look around? There is the Arabian Sea to deposit all our space crafts isn’t there?

Or perhaps the vassals are having great fun at the non vassals?

This brings us back to our old theme of the great nonsense that life is. The greats in the world would never agree with me there. Being a non -great does not impose on me the responsibility of taking all the greats as holy, like some take real shit from the institutions.

They are welcome to their form and philosophy of life. I can’t and don’t want to interfere. Some want the world to be so monolithic that they are quite unable to take anything else as real. Think of such a world, all perfect and great and lovely. Don’t you feel a shiver passing through your spine thinking about it? A world of light alone with no darkness. What wishful thinking! There has never been such a world. It can’t exist. It is an impossibility.

If you want to live, live fighting a war, either for good or for evil or you can take my line, fighting good and evil at the same time.

I know you feel as if hit by a hammer hearing this. Fighting good and evil at the same time! What…..! Your brain ceases to function; it can’t conceive such a state.

Well you great intellectuals, who are well versed in the ‘mad’ matics of life. I would like to remind you of a mobius (is the word correct I wonder?) strip. Take a thin and long strip of paper, twist it once and paste the two ends together. You get an unending surface without distinct sides.

A paper strip with two distinct sides can become so if a little imagination is used. Well this is the type of twisting is all that is required to see good and evil as the same thing and several things besides.

“Wise” up guys, you are nothing other than what you prefer to be.

Try and know who I AM and be liberated, or always remain in the nether, nether regions of the mind. It does not matter to me where you have pitched your tents for life, come to me, I can save you. There is only one sun in your horizon and that is what I AM. Those glistening apparitions that you see in the dim realm of your mind are not real suns; they are the faint flickers of my real being.

These are not mere words. That which I say goes beyond the pale of all knowledge, don’t be mere “Knowledge Associates” there is no life in it; it leads to death and destitution. Do not look around, look into me. I AM always with you, I AM kind and generous and compassionate learn that I AM the sum and substance of everything.

I AM evil if you want me to be evil, I AM good if you want me to be good, I AM beyond those if you want to become that. I can be anything and everything. I AM in essence is life.

Be as I AM. That way lays the liberation.